Works in the Exhibit

Biblography of the Items on Display

• Banks' Florilegium: A publication in thirty-four parts of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771; The specimens were gathered and classified by Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., and Daniel Solander and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784, after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson. Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820, Sydney Parkinson, 1745?-1771. London : Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), <1981>-1988. Tab: Banks
• Banks, Joseph, and Neil Chambers. The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection, 1768-1820. London: Imperial College Press, 2000. Tab: Banks Barton, William P. C. A Flora of North America: Illustrated by Coloured Figures, Drawn from Nature. Philadelphia: M. Carey & Sons, 1821. Tab: North American Works
• Berlèse, Lorenzo, and J. J. Jung. Iconographie du genre Camellia ; ou, Description et figures des camellia les plus beaux et les plus rares: peints d'après nature dans les serres et sous la direction de M. l'abbé Berlèse. Paris: H. Cousin, 1841. Tab: Hooker and Berlèse
• Bigelow, Jacob. American Medical Botany, Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States, Containing Their Botanical History and Chemical Analysis, and Properties and Uses in Medicine, Diet and the Arts, with Coloured Engravings. Boston: Published by Cummings and Hilliard; [Cambridge] University Press, Hilliard and Metcalf, 1817. Tab: Herbals
• Blunt, Wilfrid, and William T. Stearn. The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History. New York: Dover Publications, 1994. Tab: How To Illustrate Plants
• Bock, Hieronymus, David Kyber, and Conrad Gessner. Hieronymi Tragi De stirpium, maxime earum, quae in Germania nostra nascuntur, usitatis nomenclaturis, proprijs[que] differentijs, ne[que] non temperaturis ac facultatibus, commentariorum libri tres. Germanica primum lingua conscripti [Liber primus]. Strasbourg?: W. Rihel?, 1552. Tab: Herbals
• Carter, Harold B. Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820): A Guide to Biographical and Bibliographical Sources. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies in association with British Museum (Natural History), 1987. Tab: Banks
• Catlow, Agnes. Popular Garden Botany: Containing a Familiar and Scientific Description of Most of the Hardy and Half-Hardy Plants Introduced into the Flower Garden. London: Lovell Reeve, 1855. Tab: Women Illustrators
• Compleat Florist. London: Printed for J. Duke, 1747. Tab: Temple of Flora & Compleat Florist
• Curtis, William. The Botanical Magazine, or, Flower-Garden Displayed: In Which the Most Ornamental Foreign Plants, Cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, Are Accurately Represented in Their Natural Colours. S.l: s.n.], 1787. Tab: North American Works
• De Bray, Lys. The Art of Botanical Illustration: The Classic Illustrators and Their Achievements from 1550 to 1900. Bromley: Helm, 1989. Tab: Temple of Flora & Compleat Florist
• Dykes, William Rickatson, and Elsie Katherine Dykes. Notes on Tulip Species. London: H. Jenkins, 1930. Tab: Women Illustrators
• Engelbrecht, Martin. Peepshow: Eine Eremitage odor eindiedlerei. [Ausberg, C. P. Maj. Mart. Englebrecht. excud. A. V. circa 1740. Tab: Martin Engelbrecht Peepshow
• Ferrari, Giovanni Battista. Io. Bapt. Ferrarii ... De florum culture libri IV[i.e. quattuor]. Romæ: Excudebat S. Paulinus, 1633. Tab: How To Illustrate Plants
• Fish, D. T. Cassell's Popular Gardening. London: Cassell, 1884. Tab: Covers - Beauty inside and out
• Gerard, John, Thomas Johnson, Robert Davyes, Adam Islip, Joyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker. The Herball, or, General Historie of Plantes. London: Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Tab: Herbals
• Hoffy, Alfred M., and William Draper Brincklé. Hoffy's North American Pomologist, Containing Numerous Finely Colored Drawings, Accompanied by Letter Press Descriptions, &C., of Fruits of American Origin. Philadelphia: A. Hoffy, 1860. Tab: North American Works
• Holmgren, Noel H., and Bobbi Angell. Botanical Illustration: Preparation for Publication. Bronx, N.Y., USA: New York Botanical Garden, 1986. Tab: How To Illustrate Plants
• Hooker, William Jackson, and W. H. Fitch. Filices Exoticæ; or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Exotic Ferns, Chiefly of Such As Are Cultivated in the Royal Gardens of Kew. London: L. Reeve, 1859. Tab: Hooker and Berlèse
• Kong, Qinglai. Zhi wu xue da ci dian. Shanghai Shi: Xin ya shu dian, 1956. Tab: How To Illustrate Plants
• Kramer, Jack, and Linda Sunshine. Women of Flowers: A Tribute to Victorian Women Illustrators. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996. Tab: Women Illustrators
• Kress, W. John, and Shirley Sherwood. The Art of Plant Evolution. Richmond: Kew Pub, 2009. Tab: How To Illustrate Plants
• Le Maout, Emm. Botanique: organographie et taxonomie; histoire naturelle des familles végétales et des principales espèces, suivant la classification de M. Adrien de Jussieu. Avec l'indication de leur emploi dans les arts, les sciences et le commerce. Paris: L. Curmer, 1852. Tab: Covers - Beauty inside & out
• Michaux, François André, Pierre Joseph Redouté, J. Jay Smith, J. Young Scammon, and Thomas Nuttall. The North American Sylva: Or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. Philadelphia: D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1859. Tab: Covers - Beauty inside & out
• Miller, Philip, and Philip Miller. Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants Described in The Gardeners Dictionary: Exhibited on Three Hundred Copper Plates, Accurately Engraven After Drawings Taken from Nature : with the Characters of Their Flowers and Seed-Vessels, Drawn When They Were in Their Greatest Perfection : to Which Are Added, Their Descriptions, and an Account of the Classes to Which They Belong, According to Ray's, Tournefort's, and Linnaeus's Method of Classing Them : in Two Volumes. London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Rivington ... [and 15 others], 1760. Tab: Sweerti & Miller
• Nicholson, George. The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening: A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists. New York: The American Agriculturalist, 1887. Tab: Covers - Beauty inside & out
• Parkinson, John. Theatrum Botanicvm: the Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent. London: Printed by T. Cotes, 1640.Tab: Herbals
• Pratt, Anne. The Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1866. Tab: Women Illustrators
• Pratt, Anne. Wild Flowers. London: Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1893. Tab: Covers - Beauty inside & out
• Redouté, Pierre Joseph, and Claude-Antoine Thory. Les roses. Antwerp: Belgium, De Schutter S.A., 1974. Tab: Pierre-Joseph Redouté
• Sweerts, Emanuel. Florilegium Emanvelis Sweerti ... tractans de variis florib[us] et aliis indicis plâtis ad vivum delineatvm in dvabvs partib[us] et qvator lingvis concinnatvm ... Prostat venalt. vna cvm florib[us] et plantis ipsis, apvd ipsvm avtorem. Francofurti ad Moenum: impressum apud Anthonium Kempner sumptib[us] autoris, 1612. Tab: Sweerti & Miller
• Thornton, Robert John. Temple of Flora, or, Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter, and Philosopher. London: Dr. Thornton, 1812. Tab: Temple of Flora & Compleat Florist
• Weld, Margaret. Painted flowers. 1722. Tab: Women Illustrators
• West, Keith R. How to Draw Plants: The Techniques of Botanical Illustration. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1983. Tab: How To Illustrate Plants.